However, she grew up mostly with her dad, so I didn't have a lot during that time.

One of my prized possessions is a painting she did when she was 8 years old of some yellow flowers.

I also have a bust she did in ceramics in high school. Her teacher arranged for her and her classmates to show their work at a local gallery. She had lots of offers from people to buy her piece, but she wouldn't sell it (thank goodness!).

It's on a shelf in my living room now, and I told her she can't have it back, it's MINE!

The stuff that he obviously hasn't invested himself in gets admired, and then discreetly thrown away. We don't throw away anything he seems extremely proud of, because that's an indication that he really worked hard on it.

We have one of his paintings on canvas waiting to be framed, but that was a home art project, not a school one.

For the two years MG Jr. was in preschool, I automatically stuffed everything into two plastic totes. When he finished preschool, I sorted through the bins--"keep, toss, keep, toss" and STILL ended up with way too much. Gave some to my mom, gave up on thinning the herd any more, and stuffed the bin onto a top shelf of a closet.

So far his kindergarten output fits into an oversized manila folder (although it's bulging) in a file slot in my desk. But pretty soon I'm going to have to get tough with that stash too. Luckily it's easy to chuck the pieces of construction paper with what amounts to scribbles. I've put some of his watercolors on the fridge, though.

The best piece he's done so far has a permanent place on the pillar between the kitchen and the dining room. He did it in preschool--it's a hanging ceramic flower holder (artificial posies). His teacher said his was the best in both her classes--and it does look like something from a gallery!

i have 4 of them in my garage holding artwork, i haven't saved all of it. She just brought 3 projects home from school, 2 the headmaster hung in his office for over a year until i finally called an asked if i could have them, anyhow those 3 are getting framed and hung up in my house.

This was a Christmas gift from Kelly to her parents. Good job Kelly, now pack up your shit and find a foster home. If my kids tried to pass this off as a gift, they'd come home from school and find all their shit outside in a box. What a lousy gift, seriously. You give them video games and toys, and they give you some half-assed drawing with a crooked tree. I wonder how much a gift like this would set someone back. Five, maybe ten minutes to find a napkin and some markers? F

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